Sally is in eighth grade and is trying to remember what to buy at the store. Her mother told her to buy: “eggs, milk, and bananas.” According to Ornstein et al. (1975), Kammie’s memory strategy is likely to sound like which of the following when she gets to the store?

a. eggs, bananas, eggs, bananas, eggs… (serial position effect)
b. eggs, milk, bananas, eggs… (active rehearsal)
c. bananas, bananas, bananas… (passive rehearsal)
d. nothing—by the time she gets there she will be thinking about something else


Ans: b

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